CLAS 201: Introduction to Greek Culture
Study Guide for Exam #2
IMPORTANT: This guide is designed to inform your
studying by reminding you of some important terms, concepts, events, places
and people covered in the course up to this point. It is NOT a complete
list of everything you need to know. In preparing for the exam, you will
probably want to review the online transparencies and your class notes,
as well as Martin and Boardman. Make sure that you are also comfortable
with the plots and major characters of the works we have read since the
midterm: Plato's Protagoras and Symposium; Aristophanes's
Acharnians
and Clouds; Euripides's Medea; the selections from Thucydides;
Diogenes; and either Apollonius or Hero(n)das.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
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The exam will follow the same basic format as the midterm,
although it will be somewhat longer.
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The final is cumulative, although it will be weighted
toward material since the midterm. This means you will also want to review
the study
guide for the midterm exam.
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If you are in Brian Marinas's sections, you are responsible
for the readings from Apollonius of Rhodes; if you are in Gregory Hays's
sections, you are responsible for the readings from Hero(n)das. The exam
will include questions on both, but you will only have to answer those
on the readings your section has done.
Can you identify and/or explain the importance of
the following people?
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Dikaiopolis
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Alcibiades
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Lord Byron
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Diogenes
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Cleisthenes
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Agathon
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Isocrates
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the Niobid painter
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Hephaistion
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Lord Elgin
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Pyrrhus
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Epicurus
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Ephialtes
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Phidias
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Cleon
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Critias/Kritias (not to be confused with the "Kritios boy")
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Callimachus
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Gorgias
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C.P. Cavafy
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Demosthenes
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Isis
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the Thirty Tyrants (or just "The Thirty")
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Ptolemy/Ptolemaic dynasty
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Menander
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Darius III
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Protagoras
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Pericles
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Seleucus
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the Maccabees
Do you know the meaning of the following terms?
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Hellenistic
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demos
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kaloi k'agathoi
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ostracism
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sophist
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aporetic dialogue
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libation
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hetaira
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septuagint
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pastoral poetry
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"intrusive" and "extrusive" slavery
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oligarchy
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pyrrhic victory
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white ground vase painting
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symposium
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metic
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Aristotle's "exoteric" and "esoteric" works
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"do ut des"
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philippic
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satyr play
Why are these dates important?
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431
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404
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399
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323
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168
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31
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1453 AD
What went on at these events?
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The Anthesteria
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The City Dionysia
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The Panathenaic Festival
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The Eleusinian Mysteries
Do you know when (precisely or roughly) the following took
place?
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Theban hegemony
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The Fall of Constantinople
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The Peace of Nicias
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The Greek War of Independence
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The Greek Civil War
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The "Decelean" War
What do you know about these places?
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Alexandria
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the Pnyx
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Macedon(ia)
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the Piraeus
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Pergamon/Pergamum
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Leuctra
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the Erechtheum
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Mitylene (also--and more correctly--spelled Mytilene)
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Antioch
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Pylos
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Laureion
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Bactria
What is the nature/significance of the following?
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The citadel at Pergamon
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Euripides' Cyclops
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Orphism
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the Megarian Decree
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the Platonic theory of Forms or Ideas
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the mutilation of the Herms
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Stoicism
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